This work has as objective to analyze the participation and the
contribution of the household income “retirements and pensions” for the
inequality of the distribution of the per capita household income in Brazil
and Rural Brazil, in the period from 1981 to 2003. For that, it revises the
literature about concentration of income and social welfare in the country,
and it uses the Gini index components decomposition methodology: revenue
of the main work, revenue of other works, retirements and pensions,
donations, rent revenues and other revenues (interests, dividends, etc.). It
stands out, in the results, the growing participation of the retirements and
pensions and in the 1990`s in relation to the previous decade, with larger
intensity in rural Brazil, explained by the social and economic policies of
the period. The contribution of that portion of household income for the
concentration of income is significant to Brazil in 9 of the 18 analyzed
years, and to rural Brazil, starting from the decade of 1990.

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Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR)>Volume 45, Number 4, December 2007